See, there was a time before when I thought I (and “leftists” as a group) had an enlightened understanding of all these terms.
Joining Lemmy showed me that most terminology associated with the left is tainted, no one can agree on definitions, and tankies especially will weaponize terms, somehow creating the worst take imaginable.
Its because most “leftists” are white liberals who learned about socialist theory through YouTube or Twitter. Lemmy is a very liberal site, but because it’s sitting next to social media platforms that literally suck up the ground water to promote fascism, liberals mistake it as something more. What socialists or anarchists there are on here also tend to be of the STEM variety that does not read theory and therefore is less equipped to deal with appropriated language.
See, there was a time before when I thought I (and “leftists” as a group) had an enlightened understanding of all these terms.
Joining Lemmy showed me that most terminology associated with the left is tainted, no one can agree on definitions, and tankies especially will weaponize terms, somehow creating the worst take imaginable.
Its because most “leftists” are white liberals who learned about socialist theory through YouTube or Twitter. Lemmy is a very liberal site, but because it’s sitting next to social media platforms that literally suck up the ground water to promote fascism, liberals mistake it as something more. What socialists or anarchists there are on here also tend to be of the STEM variety that does not read theory and therefore is less equipped to deal with appropriated language.